April 24, 2006

Kerry Me Back to Old Baghdaddy

I just heard this on Hugh Hewitt (guest-hosted by the perpetualy bemused Jed Babbin). Surely this must rank right up there with "I actually voted for the eighty-seven billion before I voted against it," if not quite up to the caliber of his "Genghis Khan" accusation of war crimes against the entire Vietnam-era military.

I wish I knew what show this was on; anybody out there in Lizardland who can point me to a transcript, I will be very appreciative and will correct any mistakes in the quotation below [quotation corrected; the comments have the two versions side by side, so readers can judge how close my remembered version was to the actual words. The show was This Week With George Snuffleupagus]. But here is what I heard him say to the best of my recollection, in his very own Boston-Brahmin, ersatz-Kennedy monodrone:

But there is no excuse three and a half years later for American troops to be driving by IEDs and getting blown up. Are you telling me that they can’t drive a truck?

Yeah, that's the problem -- the soldiers are getting blown up by IEDs because they have poor "defensive driving" skills.

If only we had listened to Sen. John Kerry (D-Beacon Hill) and shipped a few thousand high-school Drivers-Ed teachers over to Iraq, the whole problem would be cleared up before you could say "Boston baked beans." When the explosion began, our boys could simply swerve dexterously around it, just like in the movies.

Say, you do know that JFK is making another run for la Casablanca in 2008 (or perhaps starting this year), right? Boy, that gives us Republicans a nice, warm feeling.

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, April 24, 2006, at the time of 5:21 PM

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The following hissed in response by: Bill M

the whole problem would be cleared up before you could say "Boston baked beans."

Jean Fraud Kerry, the gift that just keeps on giving. Yo, Johnny, you know
all of those Nam vets who came out of the woodwork to stop you in '04? We're
still around, and now we have reinforcements. Give it up, Johnny. Go tell Mommy
she wants you.

I have as much disdain for Kerry and his ignorant liberal elite buddies as the next guy but I actually watched this live. It is pretty clear that, while he said it poorly, he was asking if Iraqis were unable to drive trucks. In other words, he assumes that the US soldiers getting hit with IEDs are just driving supply trucks around and don't need to be manned with well trained soldiers. Any truck driver will do. We have truck driving schools that only take weeks to get through. Why haven't we started some in Iraq?

So it is still an ignorant statement, just not for the reason you attribute to him. Somebody with some time in grade doing this job should write a post on how ignorant it is. Additionally, aren't many of the IED problems on tactical vehicles (i.e. patrols) and not supply convoys? I am not a military guy so I don't tend to notice those details, in the rare cases that the press mentions them.

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